Staff members with discipline Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.
digital humanities, digital cultural heritage, media history, media archaeology, digital history, web history, media technologies, audiovisual culture, everyday media practices (home movies, technologies of memory) documentary theory and history, visual... read more
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Professor of Digital Humanities
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Paleografische kennis van het Nederlands en Duits op wetenschappelijk niveau. Combinatie van doctoraal kunstgeschiedenis, archivistiek op wetenschappelijk niveau en kunstonderwijs op HBO-niveau.
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a.m.abelmann rug.nl
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PhD student
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Qualitative ethnographic research
Syrian diasporic communities in Europe
Migration studies
Syrian diasporic communities in Europe
Migration studies
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a.albakkor rug.nl
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Julia Alting is a PhD candidate at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), where she researches nonlinear approaches to art historical time. Her research and writing have appeared in publications like Metropolis M, Rekto/Verso, ... read more
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j.alting rug.nl
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PhD Candidate
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Visual political communication, Information visualizations, Social networks, Digital culture, Political campaigns; Political learning; Information Studies
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e.r.amit-danhi rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies
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Modernism, Post-Modernism, the Enlightenment, Theory and Philosophy, Post-Humanism, Imperialism, Cultural Geography, Poetry, Poetics and Publishing
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d.m.ashford rug.nl
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Vanessa Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO-project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on the way in which making is learned and... read more
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v.van.t.hoogt rug.nl
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PhD candidate
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Critical Heritage Studies, heritage in post-conflict societies, contested heritage, culture, identity, representation, story-telling, nationhood, decolonisation
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s.b.barnabas rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Cultural Heritage and Identity: Material and Intangible Heritage
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Semitic Languages and Cultures, Medieval Hebrew Language and Literature, Medieval Hebrew Poetry (Piyyut), Judeo-Islamic culture, Middle Eastern Studies, European Jewish History.
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w.j.van.bekkum rug.nl
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
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My PhD research focuses on participatory art projects in the Dutch province of Fryslân. Central notions are art, rural communities, participation and 'mienskip'.
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c.h.d.van.bruggen rug.nl
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Imka Buurke is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on education at the intersection of art, science and technology... read more
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i.m.buurke rug.nl
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PhD student
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The Politics of Sound and Listening, Radio and Podcast Studies, Media Cultures of Gender and Sexuality, Audio Archives and Cultural Heritage, Queer and Feminist Media Production and Aesthetics, Political Phenomenology, Audio Recording as Method, Canadian... read more
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a.v.m.copeland rug.nl
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Assistant Professor - Cultural Heritage and Identity, Creative Industries
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Medieval History; History of Reading in Premodern Europe; European Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages
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s.corbellini rug.nl
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Professor "History of Reading in Premodern Europe"
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Digital humanities, social networks, history of philosophy, interdisciplinary research, literary theory
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s.j.donker rug.nl
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PhD student & Lecturer in Digital Humanities
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Arts, cognition and education
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Assistant Professor
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l.r.draaisma rug.nl
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PhD candidate
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Cognitive science, Theoretical Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Thesis: Culture as Cognition. A thorough description, operationalisation and valorisation of a new overarching theory on the origin of human´s ability for culture, the basic skills and... read more
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PhD student
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a.erdogan rug.nl
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PhD student
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Humanities (evolution of culture, philosophy, law, arts)
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Lecturer
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My PhD research explores issues of maintenance and care-work through the history of textile repair. Blending archival study on early needlework samplers with auto-ethnographic and participatory action research in conservation laboratories, artists’... read more
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l.e.ewart rug.nl
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PhD candidate
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Metaphysics, Social Ontology, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Philosophy of Language
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m.flament rug.nl
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Visiting Ph.D. candidate
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(Global) Media, Cultural Industries, Internet Governance, Gender and Technology, Critical Theory and Decoloniality; member of the Digital Constitutionalism Network ; Internet Rights and Principles Coalition ; Global Internet Governance Academic Network (G... lees meer
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m.i.franklin rug.nl
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Arts and Cognition, Empirical Aesthetics, Arts and Gender, Neuroaesthetics, Philosophy of Art.
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PhD student
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Musicology
Cultural history
Cultural history
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j.van.gessel rug.nl
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Research
Mediaeval History; Cultural and Religious History; Human-Animal Studies; Critical Animal Studies; Posthumanism; Cultural Heritage; Mediaevalisms in Games
Public Engagement
- Design of the educational board game, Monstrum.
- Organisation... read more
Mediaeval History; Cultural and Religious History; Human-Animal Studies; Critical Animal Studies; Posthumanism; Cultural Heritage; Mediaevalisms in Games
Public Engagement
- Design of the educational board game, Monstrum.
- Organisation... read more
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PhD Researcher / Dutch Studies Coordinator
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Placement and internships, Labour Market Faculty of Arts
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Placement Coordinator Faculty of Arts
Identity negotiation in companion service
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PhD student
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Julian Hanich is the author of three monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP), Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (Routledge) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau:... read more
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j.hanich rug.nl
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Professor of Film Studies
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Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Culture, Communication & Leadership
Shakespeare, Presentism & Performance
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Shakespeare, Presentism & Performance
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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c.p.a.heijes rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Historical anthropology; medieval and cultural history; methods and theory; history of ideas, esp. the French intellectual tradition; the relationship between religion and the academic discourse; the relationship between texts and images.
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lecturer
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performing theory and analysis, contemporary theatre, evaluation processes and theatre criticism, theatrepolicy
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docente theaterwetenschap
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Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts and culture education
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Professor emeritus
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Esther van der Hoorn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research focuses on works of the seventeenth-century Dutch silversmiths, Paulus and Adam van Vianen.
Esther was previously Junior Curator of Decorative... read more
Esther was previously Junior Curator of Decorative... read more
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e.f.van.der.hoorn rug.nl
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PhD student
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Emillie is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab, and a research consultant for the UN DPPA Innovation Cell. Her research lies on the formation of speech norms in social media... read more
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e.v.de.keulenaar rug.nl
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Ethnography
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PhD candidate
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(long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture (esp. novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism, Anglo-German relations); travel writing (often with a China/Hong Kong focus, theories of travel/ writing); literary and poetic theory (genre,... read more
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j.c.kuhn rug.nl
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My research develops a process-based approach to art and visual material culture. In particular, I study how materials, tools, and practices partake in the meaning making of art; how images and texts represent and reflect creative practices; and how... read more
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a.s.lehmann rug.nl
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Chair of Art History & Material Culture
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20th Century American Literature
English for Academic Purposes
Legal English
English proficiency
Presentation skills
Writing skills
Holds: UTQ
English for Academic Purposes
Legal English
English proficiency
Presentation skills
Writing skills
Holds: UTQ
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j.r.van.loon rug.nl
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PhD Candidate / English Lecturer
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Gemma López Canicio is Research Fellow in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen. Her expertise is in narrative research, emphasizing artistic-narrative communication (literature and cinema), fiction, story-telling, and... read more
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g.lopez.canicio rug.nl
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interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, environmental humanities, the novel
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a.k.maher rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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History of religion & politics; history of Europe in the twentieth century, especially France; human rights; modern & contemporary Christianity, especially dissident forms of Catholicism and Protestantism; history of warfare and war atrocities;... read more
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r.m.johnston-white rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Contemporary History
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Digital Inclusion; Children's use of digital media - The development of digital literacy; media literacy; news competencies; citizenship
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d.mensonides rug.nl
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Postdoctoral researcher
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History of Brazil and Latin America, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of the Social Sciences
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i.w.merkel rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
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Decoloniality
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics
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r.l.van.der.merwe rug.nl
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I am researching the future of our digital past at the University of Groningen. Based at the Faculty of Arts (Groningen) and Campus Fryslân (Leeuwarden), I focus on local research to stimulate science in the North of the Netherlands. Drawing on my... read more
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PhD Candidate
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Fields of Expertise: Political Theory, Digital Humanities, Global & Local Governance.
My PhD project focuses on digital democratic innovations and their potential for increased citizens’ participation, deliberation and influence on political... read more
My PhD project focuses on digital democratic innovations and their potential for increased citizens’ participation, deliberation and influence on political... read more
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a.a.mikhaylovskaya rug.nl
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Media and Communication, Digital Media studies, Migration and Diaspora studies, Gender studies, Postcolonial studies, Cultural studies
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c.minchilli rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Research expertise in the areas of gender and feminisms, decolonization, and poverty, through the lens of tourism. Also interested in qualitative approaches to research, in particular arts-based and decolonizing methdologies.
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m.l.muldoon rug.nl
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My main research topic is about what do people need to share their existential issues in a constructive way -in different work and care contexts. Concrete research contexts/projects:
1) The earthquake region Groningen - disaster chaplaincy; 2) UMCG:... read more
1) The earthquake region Groningen - disaster chaplaincy; 2) UMCG:... read more
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Professor Psychology of Religion with special attention for Spiritual Care and Wellbeing
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Dr. Cleo Nisse specializes in early modern art, with a focus on southern Europe, particularly Venice. Her research interests include the history of artistic practice, art and ecology, technical art history, and the intersection between art history and... read more
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c.m.nisse rug.nl
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Assistant Professor for Early Modern European Art
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Film Theory, Aesthetics of Technology, Visual Media, Experimental Media Archaeology, Theory and History of the Grotesque.
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a.m.a.van.den.oever rug.nl
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Arts Culture and Media / Film
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Embodiment, mobilities, technology, digital geographies, methods.
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t.osborne rug.nl
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Researcher & Lecturer
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My research explores the intersection of materials, techniques, and historical contexts in painting and visual culture with a focus on the 19th and 20th century. My first book, published in 2020, examines the concept of "ground" in 19th-century art, and... read more
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Assistant Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art
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Cultural Sociology
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology
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Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities
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m.e.pinto.reyes rug.nl
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Open Science Assistant Program Manager
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in the context of serious medical illness,
Psychotherapeutic Patient-care
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Psychotherapeutic Patient-care
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Assistant Professor & Clinical Psychologist
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Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Artificial Intelligence and palaeography, Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period, archaeology, ancient sciences, astrology, physiognomics and magic
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m.popovic rug.nl
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Dean of the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society
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Comics studies; narrative theory; English for Academic Purposes; 20th and 21st century American Literature; graphic narrative; word and image
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Lecturer
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critical approaches to American literature, art, and media, 1900 to the present; modernism; utopia in literature, theory, and history; the culture of politics and politics of culture in the 21st century
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k.s.roberts rug.nl
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies
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Sabina is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Groningen, serving the multi-disciplinary faculty of Campus Fryslan.
She is a laureate of the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her project “Transformation of Female... lees meer
She is a laureate of the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her project “Transformation of Female... lees meer
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s.rosenbergova rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage & Marie Curie Fellow
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Science and Technology Studies, Media studies, user studies, co-creation/co-design practices, Living lab methodologies, Digital Humanities, Serendipity, Information studies
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Assistant professor Media Studies
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human communication, information presentation, human computer interaction, natural language generation, affective computing, multimodal interaction.
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Assistant Professor
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Heritage, historiography, colonial history, museums, museum collections and audiences
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v.t.smeulders rug.nl
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Professor by Special Appointment 'Museums, Heritage and Religion'
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a.p.smit rug.nl
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PhD Candidate
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Memory Studies
Platform Studies
Critical AI Studies
Media Theory
Platform Studies
Critical AI Studies
Media Theory
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p.h.smit rug.nl
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Senior Lecturer Media Studies
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Kocku von Stuckrad is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on topics related to the history of religion, science, and philosophy in Europe and North America. Professor von Stuckrad served as President... read more
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c.k.m.von.stuckrad rug.nl
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Professor of Religious Studies
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- Hebrew Bible
- Targum
- Judaism
- Hebrew, Aramaic
- Targum
- Judaism
- Hebrew, Aramaic
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j.m.tanja rug.nl
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Lecturer Hebrew Bible and Judaism
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Religion, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Climate Change, Conflict, Peace and Security; Religion and Politics; Religion and Human Security; Community Development; Civil Society and Social Movements;
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j.tarusarira rug.nl
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Associate Professor
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American Studies
Colonial America
The American Revolution
The Early American Republic
The US South
The early modern Atlantic World
Ethnicity, national identity, and race
Colonial America
The American Revolution
The Early American Republic
The US South
The early modern Atlantic World
Ethnicity, national identity, and race
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m.l.thompson rug.nl
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Senior Lecturer of American Studies
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Pablo Valdivia is Chair-Full Professor of European Culture and Literature (University of Groningen), Director Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture ICOG (University of Groningen), Accreditated Full Professor [Catedrático Universidad] of... read more
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p.valdivia rug.nl
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Vera Veldhuizen is assistant professor in both European Languages and Cultures, and Arts, Media, Culture at the University of Groningen. Previously she attended Cambridge University for her PhD in children's literature, with Homerton College and the... read more
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Assistant Professor
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Dr. Pieter Verstraete holds a PhD degree in the Humanities from the Department of Theater Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam. His expertises are in Theatre and Performance Studies, Sound and Audio Culture... read more
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p.m.g.verstraete rug.nl
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Ass. Prof. in Arts, Culture and Media
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Postcolonial European cultural identity; contemporary South African culture, the Afrikaans literary field, and the public sphere. Transnational cultural production. Interdisciplinary project-based education.
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m.c.van.der.waal rug.nl
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Associate Professor and Director of Studies Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture: European society, culture, and politics in a global context. Also Endowed Chair of South African literature, culture and history (University of Amsterdam)
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Religion and popular culture; ritual studies; fan studies; digital ethnography; cultural heritage.
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w.f.wagenaar rug.nl
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PhD student
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Art Behaviors
Human Cognition
Ecological Humanities
Cross-Species Comparisons
Human Cognition
Ecological Humanities
Cross-Species Comparisons
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a.wah.laborde rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Arts and Cognition
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Marline Lisette Wilders is an audience and reception researcher in the arts. She specializes in aesthetic experiences in relationship to the experience of space and place, focusing on theatre architecture and theatre space, found spaces, industrial... read more
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m.l.wilders rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Arts in Society / Empirical Research Methods Humanities
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Religion and diplomacy, secularism, refugees and forced migration, human rights, development, global justice, globalization, climate change
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e.k.wilson rug.nl
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Professor of Politics and Religion
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Nature conservation, energy transition, energy cooperatives, science-society dynamics
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Associate Professor
Digital Humanities, Computational Literature, Cultural Evolution, Fan Study, Knowledge Representation, NLP
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xiaoyan.yang rug.nl
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Digital Humanities, Computational Literary Studies, Comparative Studies
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z.yu rug.nl
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PhD student
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